Arkansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,153,527	236,596	606	115,967	20,263	1,146,441
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1,290	617,524	262.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	788	197,402	84.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	760	86,502	36.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	434	55,438	23.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	365	78,121	33.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	201	25,237	10.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	136	28,947	12.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	134	72,952	31.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	117	15,394	6.6
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	116	8,865	3.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	83	7,408	3.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	68	10,773	4.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	66	5,082	2.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	61	8,499	3.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	60	14,154	6.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	57	6,393	2.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	57	13,845	5.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	43	10,446	4.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	42	1,469	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	30	1,773	0.8
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	30	1,147	0.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	27	5,092	2.2
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,514	0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	18	5,178	2.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	18	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	11,615	4.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	508	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,041	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	12	2,389	1.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	402	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	361	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	10	504	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	944	0.4
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	458	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	385	0.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	452	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	582	0.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,065	0.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	332	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	205	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	94	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	4	234	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	273	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	4	176	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	49	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	240	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	265	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	52	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	140	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	90	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	97	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	316	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	57	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	121,542	51.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	5,209	1,425,192

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,350,725. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,425,192) include 60.6% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.